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VG247.comFri, 09 Dec 2016 18:13:35 +0000en-UShourly1https://wordpress.org/?v=4.5.3The 3rd Birthday launch trailer – in Englishhttp://www.vg247.com/2011/02/28/the-3rd-birthday-launch-trailer-in-english/
http://www.vg247.com/2011/02/28/the-3rd-birthday-launch-trailer-in-english/#commentsMon, 28 Feb 2011 02:35:26 +0000http://www.vg247.com/?p=152168The launch trailer for Parasite Eve spin-off The 3rd Birthday is two and a quarter minutes of English-voiced brilliance. And another fifty seconds of nonsense, but we take the rough with the smooth.

Square Enix recently confirmed the game’s UK and US releases for March 29 and April 1 respectively, and posted this trailer to celebrate it.

If you’d like to see gameplay footage of heroine Aya Brea shooting everything she can see an using her mitochondrial powers, you’re in luck. If you’d like this not to degenerate into J-Pop and incomprehensible out of context exposition, too bad.

Square Enix president Yoichi Wada has told Nikkei’s Trendynet that The 3rd Birthday will see a release in Japan this year.

Speaking to the paper, he mentioned the title in a whole slew of titles due in the country this year, including io’s Kane and Lynch 2: Dog Days, Deus Ex: Human Revolution from Eidos Montreal and Japanese-developed titles like Dragon Quest: Monsters.

Wada did not, however, name two other big titles which have been long overdue for a re-reveal: Final Fantasy Versus XIII for PlayStation 3 and Final Fantasy Agito XIII for PSP, both apart of the Fabula Nova Crystallis series alongside Final Fantasy XIII for PS3 and Xbox 360.

The 3rd Birthday, meanwhile, is seen as a spin-off from the Parasite Eve series, although some consider it a main title in the series. The last we heard on the shooter was that it was still coming alongside Agito XIII, with Square insisting it will “exceed expectations“.

Fear not, however, for the game’s quality, as project director Hajime Tabata described the game as a “true third-person shooter” – straying far from the path that Final Fantasy VII: Dirge of Cerberus awkwardly stumbled down.

Also, as you’d expect of a firearm-centric game, wireless multiplayer is “being considered” for The 3rd Birthday, though further details are still being hammered out.

Square Enix hasn’t nailed down a release date for the game just yet, but we’ll be sure to keep you posted.